RITx Project Management Pathway

Leverage your RITx Project Management MicroMasters® Program Certificate

It’s easy to apply your RITx MicroMasters program certificate in project management toward a graduate degree from RIT. 

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Accelerate your degree

Upon successful completion of RITx's Project Management MicroMasters® Program and acceptance to RIT, you may be awarded 9 credits toward the Project Management MS degree, the Professional Studies MS degree, or the Smart Cities Construction Management MS degree.

How it Works


Learn on edX
Successfully complete and earn an edX MicroMasters program certificate--earn at least a B on all courses in the MicroMasters program.


Apply to RIT
You can apply to RIT even before you’ve finished your MicroMasters program. In fact, the earlier you apply and get connected with an advisor, the better!


Pursue MS degree at RIT
Once you’re accepted into the eligible program, you will be awarded credit for your MicroMasters program certificate* toward a select master’s degree at RIT.


Watch your career soar
Your master’s degree from RIT will set you up for higher-paying and high-growth careers.

Learners who successfully complete a verified MicroMasters program certificate and are accepted to RIT will be awarded up to 9 credits (depending on the program) toward select  graduate degree programs at RIT, resulting in a lower-cost and accelerated master’s degree.

* Credits awarded for MicroMasters program completion may vary by program.

MS Project Management

Accelerate your Project Management Career

Project managers are critical resources to achieve innovation, strategic goals and deliver products and services to clients. The complexity, scale, and diversity of organizations globally requires project leaders that can translate vision into practice while adapting to the changing needs of markets and clients. The project management master’s focuses on the skills needed to be successful leading projects for a variety of organizations, industries, and product/service types.

Upon successful completion of your MicroMasters program certificate and acceptance to RIT, you need only complete two additional project management courses, and four courses of your choosing tailored to your learning/career goals, plus a capstone project to earn an accelerated MS degree in Project Management.

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MS Professional Studies

Shape your future with a interdisciplinary degree

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With RIT’s master of science in professional studies, you customize your degree by choosing multiple fields of study to reflect—and create—your career direction. Combine your talents, interests, traditional or alternative higher education, work experience, and career goals to create a meaningful master’s degree highly regarded by industry and academia.

Upon successful completion of your MicroMasters program certificate and acceptance to RIT, you need only complete an introduction to the degree course, six courses of your choosing, plus a capstone project to earn an accelerated MS degree in Professional Studies.

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Limitless opportunity

Here are just some of the subject areas you may choose to study at RIT to serve as an area of concentration.

  •  Marketing
  •  Finance
  •  Applied Statistics
  •  Data Analytics
  •  Product Development
  •  Information Technology
  •  Lean Six Sigma
  •  Logistics
  •  Project Management
  •  Business Management
  •  Service Leadership
  •  Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  •  Network Security & Systems Administration
  •  Industrial & Systems Engineering
  •  Technical Communications
  •  Sustainability

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MS Smart Cities Construction Management

Propel your career in construction management 

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There is an urgent need to address aging infrastructure, energy efficiency in buildings (accounting for 40% of usage in the US), and new construction. Construction is key to a healthy economy, and effective management is key to construction initiatives that run on time, within budget, and with efficient use of resources. This degree will help you become equipped to manage clients, teams and projects of any size.

Upon successful completion of your MicroMasters program certificate and acceptance to RIT, you need only complete seven courses at RIT to earn an accelerated MS degree in Smart Cities Construction Management.

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How to Get Started

When you are ready to apply to either program, you will complete the online application and demonstrate these requirements:


Degree
Hold a baccalaureate (or equivalent) degree from a regionally accredited institution.


Cumulative GPA 
Have a minimum cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0.


Official Transcripts
Submit (in English) for all completed undergraduate, graduate study, and MicroMasters program certificate (requires at least a B on all courses in the MicroMasters program).


English Language Aptitude
TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE exams required of all applicants and course registrants whose native language is not English.

Let’s Talk

For questions about edX MicroMasters programs, you may contact edX directly. For questions about how to leverage your MicroMasters toward a degree from RIT, contact us directly.